RIC S. BASTASA

did you say that your only freedom from pain is death? Poem by RIC S. BASTASA

sad indeed,

there are other freedomsstill

freedom from having no ideas, from this dryness, freedom from having youas a poet on forced wit and half-cooked clevernessfreedom from a readerwho has nothing to offerexcept his own lonelinesshis having nothing to dofreedom from being boredto deathfreedom from having nothingto say and commentfreedom from this feeling of emptinessthis bigotrythis indigestion of dumb thoughtsfreedomfrom impertinence, immateriality, irrelevance, freedom from thinking about freedomfreedom from freedom itselfthere are more